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The Odyssey (2026)

Summary

After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.

Director Christopher Nolan

Writer Christopher Nolan

Cast

  • Matt Damon as Odysseus
  • Tom Holland as Telemachus
  • Anne Hathaway
  • Zendaya
  • Lupita Nyong'o
  • Robert Pattinson
  • Charlize Theron
  • Benny Safdie
  • Jon Bernthal
  • John Leguizamo
  • Elliot Page
  • Himesh Patel
  • Samantha Morton

Rotten Tomatoes: 96%

Metacritic: 88

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u/Meph616 10h ago

Holy shit Polyphemus (cyclops). That was incredible. And yet still not as brutal as Circe shoving her hand into the crews' faces and yanking on their jaw bones to morph them while all of them helplessly keep eating like maniacs. I was not expecting that! That whole sequence was nightmare fuel. A more chilling transformation scene than in 99% of all werewolf movies.

Suitors maliciously & forcefully spending years feasting through their hosts' food/wine. Odysseus and his men raping and pillaging villages, sacking Troy and all the innocent. The movie is not subtle about, among other things, the breaking and or abusing of the social contract. "Zeus' Law" gets brought up a bunch. And as a result Penelope/Odysseus/etc. say the world is falling apart. I know how you feel, brother. Especially after this last decade.

Also, the only "controversy" I have with this movie is the lack of subtitles.

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u/TheGooseIsLoose37 7h ago

That scene in the early part of them landing near the village and pillaging it interesting. I liked that the farmer dude asked if they were the sea people and the one guy goes, "Oh no. We're noble Greek warriors. Not some savage sea people come to destroy everything. We just needed a bit of food." Like from his perspective they definitely seemed like the sea people. Really added to what Odysseus said at the end.

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u/Few_Pride_5836 7h ago

Oh man. I forgot about that.  A second watch is mandatory.

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u/vicktacular 10h ago

It wouldn't be a Nolan movie if there weren't parts where the audio was so jacked up it's completely incomprehensible.

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u/harlockwitcher 9h ago

I think in this case, it worked. in Tenet, *no*, that was fucking stupid because we really needed those plot points. Here? I didn't need to know what was being said during the loud parts. For me, it actually enhanced and immersed me in the situations.

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u/CicadaEast272 9m ago

yea in this case it was part of the chaos and confusion

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u/snapwack 7h ago

The Greeks had a specific word for hospitality law: xenia. I wonder why they kept calling it Zeus’ law. Maybe Nolan was concerned that less attentive viewers would have trouble remembering the foreign word and get confused.

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u/Variant_Zeta 1h ago

Glad I got to watch it with subtitles lol